Category Archives: variant reading

Happy birthday, Sergei! A fresh look at Rachmaninoff’s Préludes for his 150th birthday

Posted on March 13, 2023 by Dominik Rahmer

In the Henle blog we have already published several posts … Continue reading →

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“An expression of his deeply shaken soul” – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s String Quartet in F minor on the 175th anniversary of his death

Posted on November 14, 2022 by Dominik Rahmer

Our Henle blog this year has largely dealt with two … Continue reading →

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G sharp or G? About a bass trill in Schubert’s A-flat-major Impromptu D 935, No. 2

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Wolf-Dieter Seiffert

Franz Schubert‘s piano music is almost an infinitely magical wonderland. … Continue reading →

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‘Finished in Vysoká at a nice little hour’– new finds in Dvořák’s A-major piano quintet op. 81

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Dominik Rahmer

The piano quintet is, so to speak, in the “super … Continue reading →

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Schumann revisited – about an odd accidental in the Fantasiestücke, op. 73

Posted on May 27, 2019 by Dominik Rahmer

We report as a rule in our blog posts on … Continue reading →

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Rachmaninoff revises Rachmaninoff. On the two versions of the Second Piano Sonata op. 36

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Dominik Rahmer

In my last blog posting I went into the genesis … Continue reading →

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Debussy in Urtext – Part 4: Autograph corrections in chamber-music works

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Peter Jost

It goes without saying that the focus would be on … Continue reading →

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Deluxe for the continuo group – Part II: Telemann

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Norbert Müllemann

It was nearly three years ago, on 17 February 2014, … Continue reading →

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France sets the tone – new Urtext editions in the “blue jersey”

Posted on July 11, 2016 by Dominik Rahmer

It isn’t only with the European Football Championship 2016 that … Continue reading →

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A “bad apple” in Camille Saint-Saëns’ 2nd cello sonata?

Posted on May 30, 2016 by Peter Jost

Saint-Saëns was likely far from the “genius thinking” of romanticism. … Continue reading →

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